Book 3
64.4
Moreover, you refused to accept the last proposal we made you before Plataea was investedcf. 2.72.1.—to leave you unmolested if you would aid neither side. Who, then, would more justly be hated by all the Hellenes than you, who displayed your virtue in order to compass their injury? Furthermore, those noble qualities which, as you claim, you once displayed you have now made plain were not properly yours, but your natural longings have been put to the proof and shown in their reality;
64.5
for you have followed the Athenians when they walked in the way of iniquity. Such, then, is our affirmation regarding our unwilling medism and your willing atticism.
65.1
"As to your last charge of wrong-doing on our part—that we unlawfully attacked your city in time of peace and on a day of festival—we do not think that in this matter, either, we are more at fault than you.
65.2
If it was of our own motion that we went to your city, fought you, and ravaged your land as enemies, we are in the wrong; but if some of your countrymen, the leading men in both wealth and family,cf. 2.2.2. wishing to put an end to your alliance with an outsider and to restore you to the traditions of our fathers which are common to all the Boeotians, of their own free will invoked our aid, of what wrong are we guilty? For it is those who lead that break the laws rather than those who follow.Parody on 3.55.4.
